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Kingdom Hearts: Combat Evolution with Character Evolution
Originally posted on: maxpears.com
Sept. 12, 2017
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Resources For Video Game Music Composers
Video game composer Winifred Phillips offers a roundup of resources available to newcomers who aspire to enter the field of game music composition. Included: software tools, scholarly orgs, educational links, concert tours, and online communities.
Sept. 12, 2017
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15 practical pieces of advice, stuff that I learned the hard way
Throughout my lifetime I stumbled across a wide variety of different situations, design, managment and production wise. Here I want to give some advices that I learned by hard while working in industry. 15 advices to be precise.
Sept. 12, 2017
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Citizen Science and Knowledge Games
In this article, game designer Sande Chen discusses the concept of citizen science, and how it can be embraced by game designers.
Sept. 12, 2017
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Video Game Deep Cuts: The Secret World Of Dad Of Light
This week's long form article/video highlights include the depths of the Secret World role-playing community, a unique new Final Fantasy-themed TV show, and lots more.
Sept. 11, 2017
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BIG List of Incubators, Accelerators and Funding Opportunities
A work-in-progress list of incubators, accelerators and funding opportunities for indie game developers.
Sept. 11, 2017
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Breaking Eggs - Making Omelettes
The sales results are in for Chicken Wiggle on Nintendo 3DS! Sunny-side up or scrambled?
Sept. 11, 2017
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Path of Exile Economy: Currency Trading
Path of Exile has a fascinating no-gold, P2P trading economy. This article tackles the issue of players "flipping" currency: why are they a healthy part of the economy, how are exchange rates determined and how to make profit while still enjoying the game
Sept. 11, 2017
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Player motivation, part 3: Breaking conventions
History holds a lot of interesting info about human mind that not fully accepted by scientists. Doesn't make it less important, some things lay outside of normal science, things out of a gray area, in all terms, ethical, scientific, moral.
Sept. 7, 2017
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Securing your controllers at an event
Securing your controllers is something lots of event-visiting developers are struggling with. When we wanted to showcase Team Racing League at Gamescom, no one really had a proper solution. We decided t some tools and create our own security system.
Sept. 6, 2017
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The Wacky World of Wiz 'n' Liz, a Sega Genesis Gem
Wiz 'n' Liz was developed by Raising Hell/Bizarre Creations and released for Sega Genesis in 1993. This post analyzes how the little-known game creates a whimsical world of wizards, witches and wabbits through its rules, visuals, text, sound and controls.
Sept. 6, 2017
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Lessons From Suzy Cube: Reinforcing Behaviours, A Look at Two Levels
In this installment we compare two boss levels and how one succeeds at teaching the player the use of the level's key power-up while the other fails and why.
Sept. 6, 2017